Man In Sooth Is A Marvellous, Vain,

Pythagoras Used To Say That Life Resembles The Olympic Games: A Few People Strain Their Muscles To Carry Off A Prize; Others Bring Trinkets To Sell To The Crowd For Gain; And Some There Are, And Not The Worst, Who Seek No Other Profit Than To Look At The Show And See How And Why Everything Is Done; Spectators Of The Life Of Other People In Order To Judge And Regulate Their Own.

There Is The Name And The Thing; The Name Is A Sound Which Sets A Mark On And Denotes The Thing. The Name Is No Part Of The Thing Nor Of The Substance; It Is An Extraneous Piece Added To The Thing, And Outside Of It.

The Honor Of The Conquest Is Rated By The Difficulty.

... Whoever Believes Anything Esteems That It Is A Work Of Charity To Persuade Another Of It.

Virtue Can Have Naught To Do With Ease. . . . It Craves A Steep And Thorny Path.